provenance research on 14th-century greenwares found in singapore

Stulemeijer: Provenance Research on 14th-Century Greenwares Found in Singapore NSC Working Paper No. 9
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SCC hard paste again shows clustering of the results: five distinct groups with an elongated
group below and two outliers. This could indicate that since there are so few outliers, only
specific quality pieces were transported to the area where at the present time the
Singapore Cricket Club resides. As there are no specific records of what was at the SCC site
in the fourteenth century, further analysis of the entire forty thousand artefacts retrieved
from the SCC site could possibly clarify this point. This combined with an excavation
spanning a large area with total analysis of the assemblage and chemical fingerprinting of all
ceramics would be needed to come to a better understanding of this site in ancient history.
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